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Saito S. Unraveling the dynamic slowdown in supercooled water: The role of dynamic disorder in jump motions. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:194506. [PMID: 38767263 DOI: 10.1063/5.0209713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2024] [Accepted: 05/01/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024] Open
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When a liquid is rapidly cooled below its melting point without inducing crystallization, its dynamics slow down significantly without noticeable structural changes. Elucidating the origin of this slowdown has been a long-standing challenge. Here, we report a theoretical investigation into the mechanism of the dynamic slowdown in supercooled water, a ubiquitous yet extraordinary substance characterized by various anomalous properties arising from local density fluctuations. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we found that the jump dynamics, which are elementary structural change processes, deviate from Poisson statistics with decreasing temperature. This deviation is attributed to slow variables competing with the jump motions, i.e., dynamic disorder. The present analysis of the dynamic disorder showed that the primary slow variable is the displacement of the fourth nearest oxygen atom of a jumping molecule, which occurs in an environment created by the fluctuations of molecules outside the first hydration shell. As the temperature decreases, the jump dynamics become slow and intermittent. These intermittent dynamics are attributed to the prolonged trapping of jumping molecules within extended and stable low-density domains. As the temperature continues to decrease, the number of slow variables increases due to the increased cooperative motions. Consequently, the jump dynamics proceed in a higher-dimensional space consisting of multiple slow variables, becoming slower and more intermittent. It is then conceivable that with further decreasing temperature, the slowing and intermittency of the jump dynamics intensify, eventually culminating in a glass transition.
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- Shinji Saito
- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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Uranga Wassermann MV, Soulé ER, Balbuena C. The influence of molecular shape on glass-forming behavior in a minimalist trimer model. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:9282-9292. [PMID: 38009334 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01495a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
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In this study, we employed molecular dynamics simulations to probe the influence of molecular morphological changes on the dynamic behavior of a model consisting of trimer molecules. This model, comprising a chain of three particles, facilitates the exploration of variations in the internal angle between these particles. Our findings highlight the significant impact of molecular conformation: systems with more linear conformations, characterized by larger internal angles, exhibit relaxation times several orders of magnitude greater than their counterparts with smaller internal angles. Furthermore, we delve into the role of angular interaction rigidity, uncovering a pronounced deceleration in dynamics and an increase in dynamic heterogeneity as rigidity escalates. This model not only provides insights into azobenzene-type systems but also sets the stage for subsequent research into the microscopic nuances of related systems, with potential extensions to composite systems.
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- María Victoria Uranga Wassermann
- Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), University of Mar del Plata and National Research Council (CONICET), Colón 10850, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina.
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- Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), University of Mar del Plata and National Research Council (CONICET), Colón 10850, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina.
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- Institute of Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), University of Mar del Plata and National Research Council (CONICET), Colón 10850, 7600 Mar del Plata, Argentina.
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Sposini V, Likos CN, Camargo M. Glassy phases of the Gaussian core model. SOFT MATTER 2023. [PMID: 38050434 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01314f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/06/2023]
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We present results from molecular dynamics simulations exploring the supercooled dynamics of the Gaussian Core Model in the low- and intermediate-density regimes. In particular, we analyse the transition from the low-density hard-sphere-like glassy dynamics to the high-density one. The dynamics at low densities is well described by the caging mechanism, giving rise to intermittent dynamics. At high densities, the particles undergo a more continuous motion in which the concept of cage loses its meaning. We elaborate on the idea that these different supercooled dynamics are in fact the precursors of two different glass states.
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- Vittoria Sposini
- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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- Facultad de Ciencias & CICBA, Universidad Antonio Nariño-Campus Farallones, Km 18 via Cali-Jamundí, 760030 Cali, Colombia
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Srinivasan H, Sharma VK, Sakai VG, Mukhopadhyay R, Mitra S. Noncanonical Relationship between Heterogeneity and the Stokes-Einstein Breakdown in Deep Eutectic Solvents. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:9766-9773. [PMID: 37882461 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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The relationship between Stokes-Einstein breakdown (SEB) and dynamical heterogeneity (DH) is of paramount importance in the physical chemistry of complex fluids. In this work, we employ neutron scattering to probe the DH and SEB in a series of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) composed of acetamide and lithium salts. Quasielastic neutron scattering experiments reveal SEB in the jump diffusion of acetamide, represented by a fractional Stokes-Einstein relationship. Among these DESs, lithium perchlorate exhibits the most pronounced SEB while lithium bromide displays the weakest. Concurrently, elastic incoherent neutron scans identify that bromide DES is the most heterogeneous and perchlorate is the least. For the first time, our study unveils a counterintuitive incommensurate relationship between DH and SEB. Further, it reveals the intricate contrasting nature of the SEB-DH relationship when investigated in proximity to the glass-transition temperature and further away from it.
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- H Srinivasan
- Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0QX, U.K
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- Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India
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- Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India
- Homi Bhabha National Institute, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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Li YW, Yao Y, Ciamarra MP. Local Plastic Response and Slow Heterogeneous Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:258001. [PMID: 35802437 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.258001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We demonstrate, via numerical simulations, that the relaxation dynamics of supercooled liquids correlates well with a plastic length scale measuring a particle's response to impulsive localized perturbations and weakly to measures of local elasticity. We find that the particle averaged plastic length scale vanishes linearly in temperature and controls the super-Arrhenius temperature dependence of the relaxation time. Furthermore, we show that the plastic length scale of individual particles correlates with their typical displacement at the relaxation time. In contrast, the local elastic response only correlates with the dynamics on the vibrational timescale.
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- Yan-Wei Li
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurement (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurement (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore, CNR-SPIN, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, I-80126, Napoli, Italy and CNRS@CREATE LTD, 1 Create Way, No. 08-01 CREATE Tower, Singapore 138602, Singapore
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Comparing Microscopic and Macroscopic Dynamics in a Paradigmatic Model of Glass-Forming Molecular Liquid. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23073556. [PMID: 35408916 PMCID: PMC8998722 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23073556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Revised: 03/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Glass transition is a most intriguing and long-standing open issue in the field of molecular liquids. From a macroscopic perspective, glass-forming systems display a dramatic slowing-down of the dynamics, with the inverse diffusion coefficient and the structural relaxation times increasing by orders of magnitude upon even modest supercooling. At the microscopic level, single-molecule motion becomes strongly intermittent, and can be conveniently described in terms of “cage-jump” events. In this work, we investigate a paradigmatic glass-forming liquid, the Kob–Andersen Lennard–Jones model, by means of Molecular Dynamics simulations, and compare the macroscopic and microscopic descriptions of its dynamics on approaching the glass-transition. We find that clear changes in the relations between macroscopic timescales and cage-jump quantities occur at the crossover temperature where Mode Coupling-like description starts failing. In fact, Continuous Time Random Walk and lattice model predictions based on cage-jump statistics are also violated below the crossover temperature, suggesting the onset of a qualitative change in cage-jump motion. Interestingly, we show that a fully microscopic relation linking cage-jump time- and length-scales instead holds throughout the investigated temperature range.
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Banerjee A, Sevilla M, Rudzinski JF, Cortes-Huerto R. Finite-size scaling and thermodynamics of model supercooled liquids: long-range concentration fluctuations and the role of attractive interactions. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:2373-2382. [PMID: 35258066 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00089j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We compute partial structure factors, Kirkwood-Buff integrals (KBIs) and chemical potentials of model supercooled liquids with and without attractive interactions. We aim at investigating whether relatively small differences in the tail of the radial distribution functions result in contrasting thermodynamic properties. Our results suggest that the attractive potential favours the nucleation of long-range structures. Indeed, upon decreasing temperature, Bathia-Thornton structure factors display anomalous behaviour in the k→0 limit. KBIs extrapolated to the thermodynamic limit confirm this picture, and excess coordination numbers identify the anomaly with long-range concentration fluctuations. By contrast, the purely repulsive system remains perfectly miscible for the same temperature interval and only reveals qualitatively similar concentration fluctuations in the crystalline state. Furthermore, differences in both isothermal compressibilities and chemical potentials show that thermodynamics is not entirely governed by the short-range repulsive part of the interaction potential, emphasising the nonperturbative role of attractive interactions. Finally, at higher density, where both systems display nearly identical dynamical properties and repulsive interactions become dominant, the anomaly disappears, and both systems also exhibit similar thermodynamic properties.
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- Atreyee Banerjee
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
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Dubey V, Dueby S, Daschakraborty S. Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in supercooled water: the jump-diffusion perspective. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:19964-19986. [PMID: 34515269 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02202d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Although water is the most ubiquitous liquid it shows many thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies. Some of the anomalies further intensify in the supercooled regime. While many experimental and theoretical studies have focused on the thermodynamic anomalies of supercooled water, fewer studies explored the dynamical anomalies very extensively. This is due to the intricacy of the experimental measurement of the dynamical properties of supercooled water. Violation of the Stokes-Einstein relation (SER), an important relation connecting the diffusion of particles with the viscosity of the medium, is one of the major dynamical anomalies. In absence of experimentally measured viscosity, researchers used to check the validity of SER indirectly using average translational relaxation time or α-relaxation time. Very recently, the viscosity of supercooled water was accurately measured at a wide range of temperatures and pressures. This allowed direct verification of the SER at different temperature-pressure thermodynamic state points. An increasing breakdown of the SER was observed with decreasing temperature. Increasing pressure reduces the extent of breakdown. Although some well-known theories explained the above breakdown, a detailed molecular mechanism was still elusive. Recently, a translational jump-diffusion (TJD) approach has been able to quantitatively explain the breakdown of the SER in pure supercooled water and an aqueous solution of methanol. The objective of this article is to present a detailed and state-of-the-art analysis of the past and present works on the breakdown of SER in supercooled water with a specific focus on the new TJD approach for explaining the breakdown of the SER.
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- Vikas Dubey
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar 801106, India.
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar 801106, India.
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Pastore R, Kikutsuji T, Rusciano F, Matubayasi N, Kim K, Greco F. Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in supercooled liquids: A cage-jump perspective. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:114503. [PMID: 34551555 DOI: 10.1063/5.0059622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein relation in supercooled liquids, which is the increase in the ratio τατD between the two macroscopic times for structural relaxation and diffusion on decreasing the temperature, is commonly ascribed to dynamic heterogeneities, but a clear-cut microscopic interpretation is still lacking. Here, we tackle this issue exploiting the single-particle cage-jump framework to analyze molecular dynamics simulations of soft disk assemblies and supercooled water. We find that τατD∝⟨tp⟩⟨tc⟩, where ⟨tp⟩ and ⟨tc⟩ are the cage-jump times characterizing slow and fast particles, respectively. We further clarify that this scaling does not arise from a simple term-by-term proportionality; rather, the relations τα∝⟨tp⟩⟨ΔrJ 2⟩ and τD∝⟨tc⟩⟨ΔrJ 2⟩ effectively connect the macroscopic and microscopic timescales, with the mean square jump length ⟨ΔrJ 2⟩ shrinking on cooling. Our work provides a microscopic perspective on the Stokes-Einstein breakdown and generalizes previous results on lattice models to the case of more realistic glass-formers.
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- Raffaele Pastore
- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, Napoli 80125, Italy
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, Napoli 80125, Italy
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, Napoli 80125, Italy
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Hodge SR, Corcelli SA, Berg MA. Nonlinear measurements of kinetics and generalized dynamical modes. II. Application to a simulation of solvation dynamics in an ionic liquid. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:024123. [PMID: 34266263 DOI: 10.1063/5.0053424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Solvation dynamics in ionic liquids show features that are often associated with supercooled liquids, including "stretched" nonexponential relaxation. To better understand the mechanism behind the stretching, the nonlinear mode-correlation methods proposed in Paper I [S. R. Hodge and M. A. Berg, J. Chem. Phys. 155, 024122 (2021)] are applied to a simulation of a prototypical ionic liquid. A full Green's function is recovered. In addition, specific tests for non-Gaussian dynamics are made. No deviations from Gaussian dynamics are found. This finding is incompatible with rate heterogeneity as a cause of the nonexponential relaxation and appears to be in conflict with an earlier multidimensional analysis of the same data. Although this conflict is not resolved here, this work does demonstrate the practicality of mode-correlation analysis in the face of finite datasets and calculations.
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- Stuart R Hodge
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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Biroli G, Charbonneau P, Hu Y, Ikeda H, Szamel G, Zamponi F. Mean-Field Caging in a Random Lorentz Gas. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:6244-6254. [PMID: 34096720 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c02067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The random Lorentz gas (RLG) is a minimal model of both percolation and glassiness, which leads to a paradox in the infinite-dimensional, d → ∞ limit: the localization transition is then expected to be continuous for the former and discontinuous for the latter. As a putative resolution, we have recently suggested that, as d increases, the behavior of the RLG converges to the glassy description and that percolation physics is recovered thanks to finite-d perturbative and nonperturbative (instantonic) corrections [Biroli et al. Phys. Rev. E 2021, 103, L030104]. Here, we expand on the d → ∞ physics by considering a simpler static solution as well as the dynamical solution of the RLG. Comparing the 1/d correction of this solution with numerical results reveals that even perturbative corrections fall out of reach of existing theoretical descriptions. Comparing the dynamical solution with the mode-coupling theory (MCT) results further reveals that, although key quantitative features of MCT are far off the mark, it does properly capture the discontinuous nature of the d → ∞ RLG. These insights help chart a path toward a complete description of finite-dimensional glasses.
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- Giulio Biroli
- Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States.,Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States
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- Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France
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Kaur H, Berg MA. Jump-precursor state emerges below the crossover temperature in supercooled o-terphenyl. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:L050601. [PMID: 34134282 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.l050601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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In a supercooled liquid, the crossover temperature T_{c} separates a high-temperature region of diffusive dynamics from a low-temperature region of activated dynamics. A molecular-dynamics simulation of all-atom, flexible o-terphenyl [Eastwood et al., J. Phys. Chem. B 117, 12898 (2013)10.1021/jp402102w] is analyzed with advanced statistical methods to reveal the molecular features associated with this crossover. The simulations extend to an α-relaxation time of 14 μs (272.5 K), two orders of magnitude slower than at T_{c} (290 K). At T_{c} and below, a distinct state emerges that immediately precedes an orientational jump. Compared to the initial, tightly caged state, this jump-precursor state has a looser cage, with solid-angular excursions of 0.054-0.0125 × 4π sr. At T_{c} (290 K), rate heterogeneity is already the dominant cause of stretched relaxation. Exchange within the distribution of rates is faster than α relaxation at T_{c}, but becomes equal to it at the lowest temperature simulated (272.5 K). The results trend toward a recent experimental observation near the glass transition (243 K) [Kaur et al., Phys. Rev. E 98, 040603(R) (2018)10.1103/PhysRevE.98.040603], which saw exchange substantially slower than α relaxation. Overall, the dynamic crossover comprises multiple phenomena: the development of heterogeneity, an increasing jump size, an emerging jump-precursor state, and a lengthening exchange time. The crossover is neither sharp, nor a simple superposition of the high- and low-temperature regimes; it is a broad region that contains unique and complex phenomena.
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- Harveen Kaur
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA
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Porpora G, Rusciano F, Guida V, Greco F, Pastore R. Understanding charged vesicle suspensions as Wigner glasses: dynamical aspects. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:104001. [PMID: 33246318 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abce6f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Suspensions of charged vesicles in water with added salt are widespread in nature and industrial production. Here we investigate, via Brownian dynamics simulations, a model that grasps the key features of these systems, with bidisperse colloidal beads interacting via a hard-core and an electrostatic double layer potential. Our goal is to focus on a set of interaction parameters that is not generic but measured in recent experiments, and relevant for a class of consumer products, such as liquid fabric softeners. On increasing the volume fraction in a range relevant to real formulation, we show that the dynamics become progressively slower and heterogeneous, displaying the typical signatures of an approaching glass transition. On lowering the salt concentration, which corresponds to increasing the strength and range of the electrostatic repulsion, the emergence of glassy dynamics becomes significantly steeper, and, remarkably, occurs at volume fractions well below the hard-sphere glass transition. The volume fraction dependence of the structural relaxation time at different salt concentration is well described through a functional law inspired by a recently proposed model (Krausser et al 2015 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 112 13762). According to our results, the investigated system may be thought of as a Wigner glass, i.e. a low-density glassy state stabilized by long-range repulsive interactions. Overall, our study suggests that glassy dynamics plays an important role in controlling the stability of these suspensions.
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- G Porpora
- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, Naples 80125, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, Naples 80125, Italy
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- The Procter and Gamble Company, Brussels Innovation Center, 1853 Strombeek Bever Temselaan 100, 1853 Grimbergen, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, Naples 80125, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, Naples 80125, Italy
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Zhang H, Wang X, Yu HB, Douglas JF. Fast dynamics in a model metallic glass-forming material. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:084505. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0039162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- Hao Zhang
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1H9, Canada
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- Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- Material Measurement Laboratory, Material Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
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Das Mahanta D, Mitra RK. Connection of large amplitude angular jump motions with temporal heterogeneity in aqueous solutions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:9339-9348. [PMID: 32309843 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00491j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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It has now been established that large angular jumps do take place when a rotating water molecule exchanges its hydrogen bond (H-bond) identity. This motion differs from the small angular diffusional steps occurring within short time intervals which define the 'Debye diffusion model' of water dynamics. We intend to investigate whether these two processes do eventually complement each other. In this present investigation the orientational dynamics of water in its mixture with a small hydrophobic molecule 1,2-dimethoxy ethane (DME) is studied microscopically using the all-atom classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation technique. We found that the reorientational motions of water molecules are governed by continuous making and breaking of intermolecular H-bonds with their partners. We characterise these H-bond reorientation motions with the description of the "large amplitude angular jump model" and explore the coupling between the rotational and translational motions. By following the trajectories of each molecule in the solutions we describe the orientational dynamics of liquid water with a 'continuous time random walk' (CTRW) approach. Finally, we explore the diffusivity distribution through the jump properties of the water molecules, which successfully leads to the inherent transient heterogeneity of the solutions. We observe that the heterogeneity increases with increasing DME content in the mixtures. Our study correlates the coupling between rotational and translational motions of water molecules in the mixtures.
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- Debasish Das Mahanta
- Chemical, Biological and Macromolecular Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata, 700106, India.
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Barkai E, Burov S. Packets of Diffusing Particles Exhibit Universal Exponential Tails. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:060603. [PMID: 32109131 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.060603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Revised: 10/23/2019] [Accepted: 11/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Brownian motion is a Gaussian process described by the central limit theorem. However, exponential decays of the positional probability density function P(X,t) of packets of spreading random walkers, were observed in numerous situations that include glasses, live cells, and bacteria suspensions. We show that such exponential behavior is generally valid in a large class of problems of transport in random media. By extending the large deviations approach for a continuous time random walk, we uncover a general universal behavior for the decay of the density. It is found that fluctuations in the number of steps of the random walker, performed at finite time, lead to exponential decay (with logarithmic corrections) of P(X,t). This universal behavior also holds for short times, a fact that makes experimental observations readily achievable.
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- Eli Barkai
- Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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- Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
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Dubey V, Erimban S, Indra S, Daschakraborty S. Understanding the Origin of the Breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein Relation in Supercooled Water at Different Temperature-Pressure Conditions. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:10089-10099. [PMID: 31702917 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b08309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A recent experiment has measured the viscosity of water down to approximately 244 K and up to 300 MPa. The correct viscosity and translational diffusivity data at various temperature-pressure (T-P) state points allowed for checking the validity of the Stokes-Einstein (SE) relation, which accounts for the coupling between translational self-diffusion and medium viscosity. The diffusion-viscosity decoupling increases with decreasing temperature, but the increasing pressure reduces the extent of the decoupling. Earlier simulation studies explained the breakdown of the SE relation in terms of the location of the Widom line, emanating from the liquid-liquid critical point (LLCP). Although these studies made a significant contribution to the current understanding of the above phenomena, a detailed molecular picture is still lacking. Recently, our group has explained the diffusion-viscosity decoupling from a jump-diffusion perspective. The jump-diffusion coefficient, emanating from the jump translation of water molecules, is calculated using a quantitative approach for different temperatures at ambient pressure. It has been observed that jump-diffusion is the key factor for diffusion-viscosity decoupling in supercooled water. The same method is adopted in the present work to estimate the jump-diffusion coefficient for different T-P state points and, thereby, explains the role of jump-diffusion for the different extents of the SE relation breakdown at different pressures. The residual diffusion coefficient, the other component of the total diffusion that originates from small step displacement and that is calculated by subtracting the jump-diffusion coefficient from the total diffusion, is seen to be fairly coupled to the viscosity at the entire range of temperature and pressure. Furthermore, we have calculated the average number of H-bonds per water molecule and the tetrahedral order for different T-P state points and investigated an approximate correlation between the average local structure and the contribution of the jump-diffusion to the total diffusion of water. This study, therefore, puts forward a new perspective for explaining the SE relation breakdown in supercooled water under different pressure conditions.
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- Vikas Dubey
- Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology Patna , Patna , Bihar 801106 , India
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- Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology Patna , Patna , Bihar 801106 , India
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- Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology Patna , Patna , Bihar 801106 , India
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- Department of Chemistry , Indian Institute of Technology Patna , Patna , Bihar 801106 , India
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Dueby S, Dubey V, Daschakraborty S. Decoupling of Translational Diffusion from the Viscosity of Supercooled Water: Role of Translational Jump Diffusion. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:7178-7189. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b01719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Shivam Dueby
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar 801106, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar 801106, India
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Kipnusu WK, Elsayed M, Iacob C, Pawlus S, Krause-Rehberg R, Paluch M. Glassy dynamics predicted by mutual role of free and activation volumes. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:4656-4661. [PMID: 31149697 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm00363k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) at elevated pressures and Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) are employed to elucidate the importance of the ratio of activation and free volumes during vitrification. We show that this ratio has a linear correlation with the structural relaxation of glass forming liquids in a wide temperature range hence engendering it as a vital input in the description of the dynamic glass transition.
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- Wycliffe K Kipnusu
- GROC UJI, Institute of New Imaging Technologies, Department of Physics, Universitat Jaume I, Avda. Sos Baynat s/n, 12071 Castellón, Spain.
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Kikutsuji T, Kim K, Matubayasi N. Diffusion dynamics of supercooled water modeled with the cage-jump motion and hydrogen-bond rearrangement. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:204502. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5095978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Takuma Kikutsuji
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Aichi 444-8585, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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Sibani P, Svaneborg C. Dynamics of dense hard sphere colloidal systems: A numerical analysis. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:042607. [PMID: 31108607 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.042607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The applicability to dense hard sphere colloidal suspensions of a general coarse-graining approach called Record Dynamics (RD) is tested by extensive molecular dynamics simulations. We reproduce known results as logarithmic diffusion and the logarithmic decay of the average potential energy per particle. We provide quantitative measures for the cage size and identify the displacements of single particles corresponding to intermittent cage breakings. We then partition the system into spatial domains and show that, within each domain, a subset of such intermittent events called quakes constitutes a log-Poisson process, as predicted by RD. Specifically, quakes are shown to be statistically independent and Poisson distributed with an average depending on the logarithm of time. Finally, we discuss the nature of the dynamical barriers surmounted by quakes and link RD to the phenomenology of aging hard sphere colloids.
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- Paolo Sibani
- Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK5230, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK5230, Odense M, Denmark
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Rudzinski JF, Radu M, Bereau T. Automated detection of many-particle solvation states for accurate characterizations of diffusion kinetics. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:024102. [PMID: 30646696 DOI: 10.1063/1.5064808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Discrete-space kinetic models, i.e., Markov state models, have emerged as powerful tools for reducing the complexity of trajectories generated from molecular dynamics simulations. These models require configuration-space representations that accurately characterize the relevant dynamics. Well-established, low-dimensional order parameters for constructing this representation have led to widespread application of Markov state models to study conformational dynamics in biomolecular systems. On the contrary, applications to characterize single-molecule diffusion processes have been scarce and typically employ system-specific, higher-dimensional order parameters to characterize the local solvation state of the molecule. In this work, we propose an automated method for generating a coarse configuration-space representation, using generic features of the solvation structure-the coordination numbers about each particle. To overcome the inherent noisy behavior of these low-dimensional observables, we treat the features as indicators of an underlying, latent Markov process. The resulting hidden Markov models filter the trajectories of each feature into the most likely latent solvation state at each time step. The filtered trajectories are then used to construct a configuration-space discretization, which accurately describes the diffusion kinetics. The method is validated on a standard model for glassy liquids, where particle jumps between local cages determine the diffusion properties of the system. Not only do the resulting models provide quantitatively accurate characterizations of the diffusion constant, but they also reveal a mechanistic description of diffusive jumps, quantifying the heterogeneity of local diffusion.
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz 55128, Germany
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Lam CH. Deeper penetration of surface effects on particle mobility than on hopping rate in glassy polymer films. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:164909. [PMID: 30384677 DOI: 10.1063/1.5052659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Chi-Hang Lam
- Department of Applied Physics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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Kuon N, Flenner E, Szamel G. Comparison of single particle dynamics at the center and on the surface of equilibrium glassy films. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:074501. [PMID: 30134663 DOI: 10.1063/1.5039505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Glasses prepared by vapor depositing molecules onto a properly prepared substrate can have enhanced kinetic stability when compared with glasses prepared by cooling from the liquid state. The enhanced stability is due to the high mobility of particles at the surface, which allows them to find lower energy configurations than for liquid cooled glasses. Here we use molecular dynamics simulations to examine the temperature dependence of the single particle dynamics in the bulk of the film and at the surface of the film. First, we examine the temperature dependence of the self-intermediate scattering functions for particles in the bulk and at the surface. We then examine the temperature dependence of the probability of the logarithm of single particle displacements for bulk and surface particles. Both bulk and surface particle displacements indicate populations of slow and fast particles, i.e., heterogeneous dynamics. We find that the temperature dependence of the surface dynamics mirrors the bulk despite being several orders of magnitude faster.
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- Nicholas Kuon
- Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1875, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1872, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1872, USA
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Dubey V, Kumar N, Daschakraborty S. Importance of Solvents’ Translational–Rotational Coupling for Translational Jump of a Small Hydrophobic Solute in Supercooled Water. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:7569-7583. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b03177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Vikas Dubey
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna 801103, Bihar, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna 801103, Bihar, India
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Kikutsuji T, Kim K, Matubayasi N. How do hydrogen bonds break in supercooled water?: Detecting pathways not going through saddle point of two-dimensional potential of mean force. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:244501. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5033419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- Takuma Kikutsuji
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries, Kyoto University, Katsura, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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Mukherjee B, Peter C, Kremer K. Single molecule translocation in smectics illustrates the challenge for time-mapping in simulations on multiple scales. J Chem Phys 2018; 147:114501. [PMID: 28938812 DOI: 10.1063/1.5001482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Understanding the connections between the characteristic dynamical time scales associated with a coarse-grained (CG) and a detailed representation is central to the applicability of the coarse-graining methods to understand molecular processes. The process of coarse graining leads to an accelerated dynamics, owing to the smoothening of the underlying free-energy landscapes. Often a single time-mapping factor is used to relate the time scales associated with the two representations. We critically examine this idea using a model system ideally suited for this purpose. Single molecular transport properties are studied via molecular dynamics simulations of the CG and atomistic representations of a liquid crystalline, azobenzene containing mesogen, simulated in the smectic and the isotropic phases. The out-of-plane dynamics in the smectic phase occurs via molecular hops from one smectic layer to the next. Hopping can occur via two mechanisms, with and without significant reorientation. The out-of-plane transport can be understood as a superposition of two (one associated with each mode of transport) independent continuous time random walks for which a single time-mapping factor would be rather inadequate. A comparison of the free-energy surfaces, relevant to the out-of-plane transport, qualitatively supports the above observations. Thus, this work underlines the need for building CG models that exhibit both structural and dynamical consistency to the underlying atomistic model.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, 78547 Konstanz, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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Pestryaev EM. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of the Cage Effect
in a Wide Packing Fraction Range. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036024418070221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Helfferich J, Brisch J, Meyer H, Benzerara O, Ziebert F, Farago J, Baschnagel J. Continuous-time random-walk approach to supercooled liquids: Self-part of the van Hove function and related quantities. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2018; 41:71. [PMID: 29876655 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11680-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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From equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a bead-spring model for short-chain glass-forming polymer melts we calculate several quantities characterizing the single-monomer dynamics near the (extrapolated) critical temperature [Formula: see text] of mode-coupling theory: the mean-square displacement g0(t), the non-Gaussian parameter [Formula: see text] and the self-part of the van Hove function [Formula: see text] which measures the distribution of monomer displacements r in time t. We also determine these quantities from a continuous-time random walk (CTRW) approach. The CTRW is defined in terms of various probability distributions which we know from previous analysis. Utilizing these distributions the CTRW can be solved numerically and compared to the MD data with no adjustable parameter. The MD results reveal the heterogeneous and non-Gaussian single-particle dynamics of the supercooled melt near [Formula: see text]. In the time window of the early [Formula: see text] relaxation [Formula: see text] is large and [Formula: see text] is broad, reflecting the coexistence of monomer displacements that are much smaller ("slow particles") and much larger ("fast particles") than the average at time t, i.e. than [Formula: see text]. For large r the tail of [Formula: see text] is compatible with an exponential decay, as found for many glassy systems. The CTRW can reproduce the spatiotemporal dependence of [Formula: see text] at a qualitative to semiquantitative level. However, it is not quantitatively accurate in the studied temperature regime, although the agreement with the MD data improves upon cooling. In the early [Formula: see text] regime we also analyze the MD results for [Formula: see text] via the space-time factorization theorem predicted by ideal mode-coupling theory. While we find the factorization to be well satisfied for small r, both above and below [Formula: see text] , deviations occur for larger r comprising the tail of [Formula: see text]. The CTRW analysis suggests that single-particle "hops" are a contributing factor for these deviations.
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- J Helfferich
- Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, D-76021, Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR22, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR22, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR22, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR22, F-67000, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR22, F-67000, Strasbourg, France.
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Shiba H, Keim P, Kawasaki T. Isolating long-wavelength fluctuation from structural relaxation in two-dimensional glass: cage-relative displacement. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2018; 30:094004. [PMID: 29345245 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aaa8b8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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It has recently been revealed that long-wavelength fluctuation exists in two-dimensional (2D) glassy systems, having the same origin as that given by the Mermin-Wagner theorem for 2D crystalline solids. In this paper, we discuss how to characterise quantitatively the long-wavelength fluctuation in a molecular dynamics simulation of a lightly supercooled liquid. We employ the cage-relative mean-square displacement (MSD), defined on relative displacement to its cage, to quantitatively separate the long-wavelength fluctuation from the original MSD. For increasing system size the amplitude of acoustic long wavelength fluctuations not only increases but shifts to later times causing a crossover with structural relaxation of caging particles. We further analyse the dynamic correlation length using the cage-relative quantities. It grows as the structural relaxation becomes slower with decreasing temperature, uncovering an overestimation by the four-point correlation function due to the long-wavelength fluctuation. These findings motivate the usage of cage-relative MSD as a starting point for analysis of 2D glassy dynamics.
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- Hayato Shiba
- Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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Ikeda H, Zamponi F, Ikeda A. Mean field theory of the swap Monte Carlo algorithm. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:234506. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5009116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Harukuni Ikeda
- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
- IPhT, CEA/DSM-CNRS/URA 2306, CEA Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
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- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Caballero NB, Zuriaga M, Tamarit JL, Serra P. Dynamic heterogeneity in an orientational glass. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:184501. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5004671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Nirvana B. Caballero
- CNEA, CONICET, Centro Atomico Bariloche, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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- Grup de Caracterització de Materials, Departament de Física, EEBE and Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering, Eduard Maristany, 10-14, 08019 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina and IFEG-CONICET, Ciudad Universitaria, X5016LAE Córdoba, Argentina
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Pastore R, Pesce G, Sasso A, Ciamarra MP. Many facets of intermittent dynamics in colloidal and molecular glasses. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bouzid M, Colombo J, Barbosa LV, Del Gado E. Elastically driven intermittent microscopic dynamics in soft solids. Nat Commun 2017. [PMID: 28635964 PMCID: PMC5482056 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Soft solids with tunable mechanical response are at the core of new material technologies, but a crucial limit for applications is their progressive aging over time, which dramatically affects their functionalities. The generally accepted paradigm is that such aging is gradual and its origin is in slower than exponential microscopic dynamics, akin to the ones in supercooled liquids or glasses. Nevertheless, time- and space-resolved measurements have provided contrasting evidence: dynamics faster than exponential, intermittency and abrupt structural changes. Here we use 3D computer simulations of a microscopic model to reveal that the timescales governing stress relaxation, respectively, through thermal fluctuations and elastic recovery are key for the aging dynamics. When thermal fluctuations are too weak, stress heterogeneities frozen-in upon solidification can still partially relax through elastically driven fluctuations. Such fluctuations are intermittent, because of strong correlations that persist over the timescale of experiments or simulations, leading to faster than exponential dynamics.
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- Mehdi Bouzid
- Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington District Of Columbia 20057, USA
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington District Of Columbia 20057, USA
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington District Of Columbia 20057, USA.,CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil, Brasilia - DF 70.040-020, Brazil
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- Department of Physics, Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology, Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington District Of Columbia 20057, USA
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Pastore R, Pesce G, Sasso A, Pica Ciamarra M. Cage Size and Jump Precursors in Glass-Forming Liquids: Experiment and Simulations. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:1562-1568. [PMID: 28301929 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Glassy dynamics is intermittent, as particles suddenly jump out of the cage formed by their neighbors, and heterogeneous, as these jumps are not uniformly distributed across the system. Relating these features of the dynamics to the diverse local environments explored by the particles is essential to rationalize the relaxation process. Here we investigate this issue characterizing the local environment of a particle with the amplitude of its short time vibrational motion, as determined by segmenting in cages and jumps the particle trajectories. Both simulations of supercooled liquids and experiments on colloidal suspensions show that particles in large cages are likely to jump after a small time-lag, and that, on average, the cage enlarges shortly before the particle jumps. At large time-lags, the cage has essentially a constant size, which is smaller for longer-lasting cages. Finally, we clarify how this coupling between cage size and duration controls the average behavior and opens the way to a better understanding of the relaxation process in glass-forming liquids.
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- Raffaele Pastore
- CNR-SPIN, sezione di Napoli, Dipartimento di Fisica, Campus universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Napoli Federico II, Campus universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Napoli Federico II, Campus universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- CNR-SPIN, sezione di Napoli, Dipartimento di Fisica, Campus universitario di Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
- Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University , Singapore , 639798
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Pastore R, Pesce G, Caggioni M. Differential Variance Analysis: a direct method to quantify and visualize dynamic heterogeneities. Sci Rep 2017; 7:43496. [PMID: 28290540 PMCID: PMC5349610 DOI: 10.1038/srep43496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2016] [Accepted: 01/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Many amorphous materials show spatially heterogenous dynamics, as different regions of the same system relax at different rates. Such a signature, known as Dynamic Heterogeneity, has been crucial to understand the nature of the jamming transition in simple model systems and is currently considered very promising to characterize more complex fluids of industrial and biological relevance. Unfortunately, measurements of dynamic heterogeneities typically require sophisticated experimental set-ups and are performed by few specialized groups. It is now possible to quantitatively characterize the relaxation process and the emergence of dynamic heterogeneities using a straightforward method, here validated on video microscopy data of hard-sphere colloidal glasses. We call this method Differential Variance Analysis (DVA), since it focuses on the variance of the differential frames, obtained subtracting images at different time-lags. Moreover, direct visualization of dynamic heterogeneities naturally appears in the differential frames, when the time-lag is set to the one corresponding to the maximum dynamic susceptibility. This approach opens the way to effectively characterize and tailor a wide variety of soft materials, from complex formulated products to biological tissues.
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- Raffaele Pastore
- CNR-SPIN, sezione di Napoli, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy.,University of Cincinnati, UC Simulation Center, 2728 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45219, USA.,Corporate Engineering, The Procter &Gamble Company, Cincinnati, 8256 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069, USA
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- Università di Napoli "Federico II", Dipartimento di Fisica, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Corporate Engineering, The Procter &Gamble Company, Cincinnati, 8256 Union Centre Blvd., West Chester, OH 45069, USA
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Wallace DC, Chisolm ED, De Lorenzi-Venneri G. V-T theory for the self-intermediate scattering function in a monatomic liquid. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2017; 29:055101. [PMID: 27941219 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/29/5/055101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
In V-T theory the atomic motion is harmonic vibrations in a liquid-specific potential energy valley, plus transits, which move the system rapidly among the multitude of such valleys. In its first application to the self intermediate scattering function (SISF), V-T theory produced an accurate account of molecular dynamics (MD) data at all wave numbers q and time t. Recently, analysis of the mean square displacement (MSD) resolved a crossover behavior that was not observed in the SISF study. Our purpose here is to apply the more accurate MSD calibration to the SISF, and assess the results. We derive and discuss the theoretical equations for vibrational and transit contributions to the SISF. The time evolution is divided into three successive intervals: the vibrational interval when the vibrational contribution alone accurately accounts for the MD data; the crossover when the vibrational contribution saturates and the transit contribution becomes resolved; and the diffusive interval when the transit contribution alone accurately accounts for the MD data. The resulting theoretical error is extremely small at all q and t. V-T theory is compared to mode-coupling theories for the MSD and SISF, and to recent developments in Brownian motion experiments and theory.
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- Duane C Wallace
- Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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